Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber/optical fiber cable termination structure
Patent
1989-12-15
1991-09-17
Sikes, William L.
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber/optical fiber cable termination structure
G02B 636
Patent
active
050489151
ABSTRACT:
A relatively simple method is provided for terminating an optic cable to a terminus body, so the optical fiber, buffer, and outer jacket of the cable are all held securely to a terminus body with the end of the optical fiber closely held in position. The method includes forming the terminus body (14, FIG. 2) with a bore extending through its length, the bore including a front bore portion (30) that closely receives the optical fiber, a second bore portion (40) that closely surrounds the buffer, and a third bore portion (42) that closely surrounds a front outer jacket region (18). Adhesive (34) is placed in the second bore portion to fill most of it. The optic cable is positioned with the optical fiber (22) extending through the front bore portion and with the buffer (20) lying against the rear of the quantity of adhesive. With the adhesive in a flowable state, the optic cable is pressed forward (F) while the terminus body is held against movement, so the buffer presses like a piston into the second bore portion to force adhesive through the front bore portion around the fiber, and also to displace adhesive so it flows rearwardly around the buffer and around the front jacket region, to thereby allow a single quantity of adhesive to hold all three parts of the optic cable in place.
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patent: 4787699 (1988-11-01), Mouline
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patent: 4812008 (1989-03-01), Tokumaru et al.
Coutts Bruce
Kruse Kathleen M.
Heartney Phan T.
Sikes William L.
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